Cedric Hardwicke — Actor (40)
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
director: Tay Garnett actor: Bing Crosby / Rhonda Fleming …
other title: La corte di re Artù / Ritter Hank, der Schrecken der Tafelrunde …
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.
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Botany Bay (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Botany Bay
director: John Farrow actor: Alan Ladd / James Mason …
other title: I deportati di Botany Bay / Das Schiff der Verurteilten …
Based on the story of the start of Australia's colonisation. An American medical student is falsely convicted of robbery, with his sentence involving the torturous voyage with other prisoners to the new penal colony at Botany Bay. Because of his attempt to escape, evil Captain Gilbert decides to return him to England on charges of mutiny.
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Sentimental Journey (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Sentimental Journey
director: Walter Lang actor: John Payne / Maureen O'Hara …
other title: Conflicto sentimental
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.
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Tycoon (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Tycoon
director: Richard Wallace actor: John Wayne / Laraine Day …
other title: La grande conquista / Taïkoun …
Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are compromised, when he falls in love with his boss's daughter
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Salome (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Salome
director: William Dieterle actor: Rita Hayworth / Charles Laughton …
other title: Salomè / Salomé
In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king's dawning lust for Salome as her means of bending the king to her will. But Salome and her lover Claudius are (contrary to Scripture) nearing conversion to the new religion. And the famous climactic dance turns out to have unexpected implications...
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A Woman's Vengeance (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Woman's Vengeance
director: Zoltan Korda actor: Charles Boyer / Ann Blyth …
other title: Il sorriso della Gioconda / Qualen der Liebe …
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
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Wilson (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Wilson
director: Henry King actor: Alexander Knox / Geraldine Fitzgerald …
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2006.
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Les Misérables (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Les Misérables
director: Richard Boleslawski actor: Fredric March / Charles Laughton …
other title: Die Elenden / Los miserables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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I Remember Mama (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
I Remember Mama
director: George Stevens actor: Irene Dunne / Barbara Bel Geddes …
other title: Mamma ti ricordo! / Geheimnis einer Mutter …
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.
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Helen of Troy (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Helen of Troy
director: Robert Wise actor: Rossana Podestà / Jacques Sernas …
other title: Elena di Troia / Helena de Tróia …
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
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Laburnum Grove (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Laburnum Grove
director: Carol Reed actor: Edmund Gwenn / Cedric Hardwicke …
To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave. His wife believes he is joking, but he has in fact allowed the truth to slip out and now he is danger of being arrested.
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Becky Sharp (1935) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Becky Sharp
director: Rouben Mamoulian actor: Miriam Hopkins / Frances Dee …
other title: A Feira da Vaidade / La feria de la vanidad …
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society. The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor.